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Lutheran Teachers College founder dies

Rev Dr Rolph Mayer, a founding lecturer and long-time principal of the LCA’s Lutheran Teachers College (LTC), has died, aged 90.

Dr Mayer was a lecturer at LTC when it was based in Highgate in Adelaide’s inner south from 1968 and was principal of the LCA’s teacher training school from 1970 until 1987.

He continued to teach at LTC when it moved to the campus of Luther Seminary in North Adelaide in 1990. He retired from full-time teaching at the end of 1995.

Dr Mayer was also a founding committee member of Lutheran Student Fellowship in South Australia in the 1950s.

Ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1951, he served the people of the Lower Murray Home Mission in South Australia until 1954. He was a teacher and chaplain from 1955 until 1967 at Immanuel College in suburban Adelaide, firstly at Walkerville then at Novar Gardens.

In 2009, he was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Australian Lutheran College.

Dr Mayer, who died in Adelaide on 31 August, is survived by his wife, Margaret, and daughters Susan and Anne and their families. His son, Peter, predeceased him.

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Update on discipline procedures review

In 2018, the LCA General Synod asked the General Church Board (GCB) to resource a review of the church’s Ecclesiastical Discipline, Adjudication and Appeals provisions, policies and processes, and a review of the Professional Standards Department and related policies, procedures and practices.

Submissions were invited from all interested parties, including pastors, calling body chairpersons, district administrators, church leaders and General Synod delegates. These have been analysed by the review team, which also did interviews and investigated how other organisations manage ecclesiastical discipline. The review team is now developing a final report for GCB, which will be submitted in February 2021.

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New name for district

The LCA/NZ’s New South Wales District is now known as the Lutheran Church of Australia, NSW and ACT District. The change was instigated by the District Convention of Synod, which asked NSW’s District Church Council to register a trade name that included the Australian Capital Territory. Along with the new name, an updated logo and branding are being rolled out.

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